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Hey all! Just something I've been chipping away at since being inspired by Blue Planet II earlier in the year. Enjoy - crit more than welcome!

Also I was hoping to ask you all for advice on how you all go about spreading personal projects online (not so much for this project but perhaps for more ambitious ones down the line).

Is the key largely just sending links out to blogs and vimeo channels? Wine After Coffee, Motionographer and Mixed Parts are the only ones I really follow or am aware of. I feel like it can be tricky getting work noticed if you've not already got a following online (although obviously having excellent work would be the main thing!)

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Nice, I really enjoyed the script, great work, good to see animators writing too!

Also worth checking out is an article by Dan Castro on pros and cons of submitting to festivals vs online, it was shared here a while back but worth reading if you haven’t.
https://medium.com/@thatcastrochap/putting-your-short-film-online-3794e0a24144

Funny thing with the square... we had thought about it as a film exclusively for IG. But then just didn’t feel right putting the full length up there instead of Vimeo!

Thanks Stephen! Yeah - they were originally just going to be illustrations but I ended up writing a script around the illustrations to house them all in one animation.

That's really useful info, thanks! Sounds like the key is just making work that's strong enough to get noticed by one of the big channels like ICH to get the ball rolling. Shame that press pack didn't do the job - maybe better suited to a behance spread? Definitely agreed on re your thoughts on festivals and Vimeo. I remember watching one called The Art of Drowning which has really stuck with me going on a decade later.

BTW Stellar is great piece of work. Love the contrast of the epic sound design and the clean visuals at the end. And that square format, hah. Nice!

Nice piece, I really like the illustration. Did you write that script too?

For our last film we created a press pack, dropbox paper doc with gif's, stills, development sketches, along with a synopsis. Which we sent out to a few blogs pre-publishing, but it fell on deaf ears!

We uploaded it to Vimeo and it maybe had about 30 watches when Ice Cream Hater shared it from which it then snowballed, that was when we began sending it to other channels, and it eventually got Staff Picked.

We don't really use social media too much, we've got maybe 1,000 followers on Twitter / IG but barely publish anything so I don't think that is a barrier to work being seen.

Also look outside of online, we've had the film accepted at festivals, and honesty having that captive audience of a handful of people at a festival gets me more excited than having 10,000 views on IG.

I think that's another thing.... there's obviously a lot of people using social media well and reaching huge audiences, but I really can't remember the last thing I saw on Instagram. However I can remember Staff Picks on Vimeo I watched 8 years ago. I hope Vimeo can sort things out.